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EASTERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OVERVIEW ON GENDER PERPESPECTIVE INTO THE PROVINCIAL GROWTH AND STRATEGY Questions Response How the department is ensuring that gender is Gender has been institutionalised in the Directorate institutionalised through the Provincial Growth Youth and Special Programmes in the office of the Strategy Head of Department.

Appointment level of Gender Focal Persons in the The Director Youth and Special Programmes level 13 province?
(Senior Management Services) as the Gender Focal Person Binding mechanisms for the implementation of the Department has an approved Employment Equity Plan Gender Responsive Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring, (2021-2024) Evaluation and Auditing Framework.

Plans to ensure that Equity targets are achieved and implementation time frames.

Create an enabling environment for Gender • Responsive Budgeting.
Ensure that gender-disaggregated data is • available • Assess the gender responsiveness of legislation, policies, and programs of the department.
• Raise awareness of gender issues and gender impacts of budgets and policies to ensure that there are budgetary and policy commitments by the department Progress from the Employment Equity Plan (2017- 2021) Appointment of youth at entry level was ❑ achieved but under achieved at Top and Senior Management level The recruitment drive has achieved the ❑ targets to appoint females, as compared to males as the drive was mostly for schools, but there was an underrepresentation of females at Managerial and Senior Management level.
1 The staff turnover and natural attrition ❑ resulted under representation of people with disabilities.

Targets from the recently approved Employment Equity Plan sh Gender Mainstreaming ow that a further (458) 32 % of women need to be appointed by 2024 Progress made by the department in developing Gender Norms have not yet been developed Gender Norms Gender Mainstreaming GBV/F REPORT Pillar Pillar 2 Gender Mainstreaming strategy still has to be developed.
Progress ● On the 18-20 February 2022 Forty-Two Prevention and Rebuilding Social Cohesion (42) girl learners from twenty-one (21) schools in Nelson Mandela Bay district and on the 8 to 10 March seventy (70) Care and Support Champions and Peer Group Trainers were trained on Gender Based Violence and Femicide.

● One hundred and eighty-six (186) young people from Alfred Nzo West participated in a Gender Based Violence and Femicide awareness campaign.
● OR Tambo Coastal District conducted a GBV/F awareness campaign which was attended by one hundred (100) youth from the community.

● Twenty- six (26) out of school youth placed in schools as Learner Support Agents in OR Tambo Inland Districts were trained on the Protocols for 2 Reporting for Management and Reporting of Abuse and Harassment in Schools.
● GBV/F Awareness campaign was held with three hundred and five (305) on learners the 24 May 2022 at Efata Special School Gender Based awareness campaigns conducted by Youth and Special Programmes Units in education districts.

• 16 Days of Activism was held for all ECDoE, one hundred and eighty- nine (189) Head office employees participated.

One hundred and eighteen 118 women employees were capacitated with self-defence skills in partnership with South African Police Service.
• Districts have conducted 16 days of activism and reached five hundred and eighty (580) participants.

Ongoing orange campaign on GBV/F was conducted, seven hundred and fifty-five (755) employees attended.
Ongoing orange GBV campaign for learners was held with one thousand one hundred and sixty learners Pillar 4: ● Two (2) learners from Alfred Nzo West who Response Care, Support and Healing were being sexually abused at home were referred to SAPS and DSD and both have been removed to places of safety ● Two thousand three hundred and ninety- one (2391) GBV emergency response was 3 conducted in the Zero Learner Dropout Campaign in Buffalo City Metro and Amathole East and West 4